Classical Writing Scope and Sequence for Homer Core Book

Grade Workbook Spelling/Vocabulary Writing/Composition Grammar Models/Literature Reading Comprehension/Literary Analysis

5th Homer A

• dictionary skills for unfamiliar words

• vocabulary analysis: alphabetize, study spelling, parse, dic-tionary work, related definitions

• advanced vocabulary skills: usage notes, etymology, word lore, literary quotations

• word copia from syn-onyms

• thesaurus skills

• Aristotle’s ten catego-ries

• copybook

• dictation

• summary sentences for paragraphs

• precis

• hierarchical outlining

• scenes and acts

• what is a paragraph?

• types of paragraphs: descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive

• multi-scene stories

• telling a story in media res

• telling a story back-wards

• editing of a narrative with respect to: cred-ibility, concision, and clarity

• invention, arrange-ment, style

• parsing of nouns, verbs (linking verb, copula, and predicate), adjectives, verbals, pronouns, adjective elements, adverbial clauses, prepositions, infinitives, conjunc-tions, interjections.

• diagramming sen-tences from literature: words, phrases, and clauses, objects and complements, simple and compound sen-tences, prepositional phrases, indirect ob-jects, participles and gerunds, appositives and relative clauses, adverbial clauses

• six sentence shuffle: paraphrase, synonym substitution, gram-matical change, addi-tion, subtraction, same diagram-new idea.

• verb tense changes

• Iliad

• Odyssey

• Bible

• historical fiction

• historical narratives

• fairy and folk tales

• science accounts

• reading aloud fluently and with expression

• author’s emphasis and proportion in narra-tives

• narrative scenes

• Theon’s six compo-nents of a scene: person, action, place, manner, time, and cause

• essentials and acci-dentals

• differences between fiction and non-fiction

• legends and myths

• historical fiction

• poetic truth

• credibility, clarity, and concision in narratives

6th Homer B